A July 4 phone call between the US and Russian leaders raised eyebrows, with Moscow emphasizing wartime ties and urging diplomatic solutions framed by Russian approaches.<\/p>\n
July 4, 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, held a phone conversation with the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. Among other things, the parties discussed the war in Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey.<\/p>\n
The content of the conversation was stated by Yuri Ushakov, the assistant to the head of the Russian Federation, who is cited by the Russian agencies Interfax and TASS.<\/p>\n
reminded about Russia\u2019s contribution to the founding of the American state<\/p>\n
\u2013 Yuri Ushakov<\/p>\n
During the conversation, Putin congratulated Trump on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence and reminded him of Russia\u2019s contribution to the founding of the American state, Moscow said.<\/p>\n
The peoples of Russia and the United States will never forget the alliance during World War II<\/p>\n
\u2013 Yuri Ushakov<\/p>\n
Although the call occurred against the backdrop of the United States\u2019 main national holiday, the Kremlin says that Washington was the initiator of the conversation: this speaks volumes.<\/p>\n
That speaks volumes<\/p>\n
\u2013 the Kremlin says<\/p>\n
According to Ushakov, the head of the Russian Federation emphasized the preference for a political-diplomatic settlement, but with consideration of \u201cRussian approaches\u201d.<\/p>\n
As a reminder, on this day the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, also held a phone call with Trump. They discussed the current situation on the frontline and in diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A July 4 phone call between the US and Russian leaders raised eyebrows, with Moscow emphasizing wartime ties…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3759,2617,54,3760,3761,3762],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kremlin-statement","tag-nato-summit-turkey","tag-news","tag-trump-putin-call","tag-ukraine-talks","tag-yuri-ushakov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}